1666

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  – 1660s –  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1663 1664 1665 – 1666 – 1667 1668 1669

1666 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1666 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 Culture

Events of 1666

January–June

• January 17 – Chair of St. Peter set above the Altar at Cathedra Petri, Vatican City.[1]
• June 11–June 14 – Second Anglo-Dutch War – Four Days Battle: The Dutch fleet defeats England.

July–December

• The city of Piteå in Sweden is completely burned by a large fire
• July 25 (julian calendar) / August 4 (gregorian calendar) – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English fleet defeats the Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter at St. James's Day Battle.
• August 9 – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later referred to as Holmes's Bonfire.
• September 2 – Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for 3 days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
• September 6 – Cestui que Vie Act 1666 passed in Parliament
• September 5 – The Great Fire of London ends.
• September 16 – Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi
• December 22 – The Académie des sciences (French Academy of Sciences) is founded by Louis XIV.

Undated

• Expulsion of the Portuguese from the Bengal port city of Chittagong by Mughal forces of Emperor Aurangzeb under General Bujurg Umed Khan and renaming the city as Islamabad.
• Sir Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into its component colors, which helps us understand the nature of light more comprehensively (see optical spectrum).
• Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer paints The Art of Painting, his largest and most complex work.
• Lund University is founded in Lund, Sweden.
• Moulay al-Rashid conquers Fes, marking the beginning of Morocco's still-reigning Alaouite Dynasty.
• Jean Talon completes a census of New France, the first census in North America.
• The Russian Orthodox Church holds a sobor (church council) which deposes Patriarch Nikon, but accepts his liturgical reforms. Dissenters from his reforms, known as Old Believers, continue to this day.
• The year is also known for having all the Roman numerals, used only once, in order from biggest to smallest value (MDCLXVI = 1666).

Births

1666 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1666 MDCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2419
Armenian calendar	1115 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-178 – -177
Bengali calendar	1073
Berber calendar	2616
Buddhist calendar	2210
Burmese calendar	1028
Byzantine calendar	7174 – 7175
Chinese calendar	乙巳年十一月廿六日 (4302/4362-11-26) — to — 丙午年十二月初六日 (4303/4363-12-6)
Coptic calendar	1382 – 1383
Ethiopian calendar	1658 – 1659
Hebrew calendar	5426 – 5427
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1722 – 1723
- Shaka Samvat	1588 – 1589
- Kali Yuga	4767 – 4768
Holocene calendar	11666
Iranian calendar	1044 – 1045
Islamic calendar	1076 – 1077
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 5 (寛文5年)
Korean calendar	3999
Thai solar calendar	2209

• February 1 – Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (d.1732)
• February 9 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
• March 15 – George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
• May 14 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
• July 10 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
• August 13 – William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
• September 6 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
• December 26 – Guru Gobind Singh, Punjabi scholar, theologian, social reformist, poet, head of a faith, representative of an ethnicity and a military head (d. 1708)
• date unknown
  • Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall (d. 1706)
  • Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (d. 1732)

See also Category: 1666 births.

Deaths

See also Category: 1666 deaths.

• January 20 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)
• January 22 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
• January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
• February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
• June 14 – Tierck Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)
• June 16 – Sir Richard Fanshawe, British diplomat and translator (b. 1608)

• June 30 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
• July 5 – Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
• August 15 – Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
• August 26 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. 1580)
• October 29 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
• October 29 – James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
• December 9 – Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino), Italian painter (b. 1591)
• date unknown
  • Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (b. 1627)
  • James Howell, British writer (b. c. 1594)
  • Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (b. 1587)

Culture

Often called Annus Mirabilis, the year 1666 is mentioned in the poem Annus Mirabilis. Charles the second was king at the time